[oe] [PATCH v2] linux-libc-headers (2.6.24): Add falloc.h to kernel exported headers

Thilo Fromm t.fromm at dresearch.de
Thu Sep 30 10:50:53 UTC 2010


Hello Paul,

> although not very important I think it is better to write
>
> 	linux-libc-headers_2.6.24
>
> in the commit summary.

OK.

>> upstream: OE-only
>
> This can be omitted in the commit message.

Yupp, I think I now understand the purpose of this tag, any that I put 
it at the wrong place.

>> This adds include/linux/falloc.h to the list of files exported by the kernel
>> to the C library. The include file is required for building e.g. a recent
>> util-linux-ng against 2.6.24.
>>
>> Starting from 2.6.25 a similar patch has been accepted upstream (the mainline
>> kernel). For 2.6.24, however, falloc.h is not exported although it's present.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thilo Fromm<t.fromm at dresearch.de>
>> ---
>>   .../linux-libc-headers/files/export_falloc_h.patch |   10 ++++++++++
>>   .../linux-libc-headers_2.6.24.bb                   |    1 +
>>   2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 recipes/linux-libc-headers/files/export_falloc_h.patch
>>
>> diff --git a/recipes/linux-libc-headers/files/export_falloc_h.patch b/recipes/linux-libc-headers/files/export_falloc_h.patch
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..5860e88
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/recipes/linux-libc-headers/files/export_falloc_h.patch
>
> Just for the record. Please add the patch header as I wrote in my other
> message

I missed the spot. Sorry for that. I'll fix this.

> I think the next iteration will be ready to be committed.

Cool :)

Regards,
Thilo

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